Word: named
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...here, from buff teens to potbellied boomers. They walk in wearing street clothes, step into a storage closet and emerge, in body socks and hoods, as the Samurai, Red Tornado, Black Panther, Golden Lion. Every class is like fright night at the Elks Lodge. "Guy comes in, says his name is Greg, but he wants to be called Power Lord because that's what they called him in school," says Bill Anderson, 43, one of the two former pro wrestlers who run the school. "The guy's maybe 5 ft. 7. I said, 'Where'd you go, a school...
...innocence, it was the reappropriation of resources from the security of our defense to the security of our game shows. A TIME/CNN poll shows that only 32% of Americans think game shows are always run honestly, while 76% say it doesn't matter. Nevertheless, Greed had to change its name to Greed: the Series to skirt a rule that says shows can't change their rules once they're on the air. (They're lucky there's no game show Supreme Court.) On Twenty One, none of the handwritten questions are entered into a computer; when they are removed from...
...spec last season for the chance to write in "a writer's medium, rather than a director's... I felt like such a part of this world, writing for actors I knew." The team shares a gift for the fluid patter of Northeastern Italian Americans (like Chase, ancestral name DeCesare); Edie Falco, who won an Emmy as Tony's steely wife Carmela, says that on other projects, "I instinctively start rewriting my lines--which I'm sure writers hate...[But] I have never, ever had to second-guess with The Sopranos...
...items not going to arrive for Christmas, but that my order had been canceled. I immediately went to Amazon.com and guess what? I got the same items on Dec. 22, gift wrapped and ready to put under the tree. Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus, and his name is Jeff Bezos. ELAINE FLORES Stamford, Conn...
...Writing, after all, isn't like computer programming or shoe cobbling. Everyone can write, so my job is like being a professional talker or doodler, the latter of which, oddly enough, the New Yorker employs. But when the Ice Cream Man in Greenwich, N.Y., announced I'd won its Name That Ice Cream Flavor contest, I realized I indeed had a skill. My work, delivered under the pseudonym of a local resident, crushed the non-professional competition. I not only deserved my paycheck from TIME, but could probably make extra money naming frozen dessert products on a freelance basis...